Synthesizer: Hang then crash if you press "Load from score" at very beginning of session

• Jun 24, 2018 - 12:00
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Randomly
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

Win 7/10. MS 2.2.1, 51b8386 (also present in latest 2.3 nightly)

  1. Open MS and load the attached score.
  2. Quickly open the synthesizer and press "Load from Score."

You will get a hang/crash if this is done quickly enough. At a guess, this happens because the soundfont is still decompressing. If you have a "super-fast" system you may have difficulty reproducing the issue.

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Comments

• Jul 4, 2018 - 13:19
Severity S2 - Critical ⇒  
Status (old) active ⇒ needs info
Status active ⇒ needs info

I cannot reproduce on 2Gb RAM, 2-cores 1.33GHz old machine, Win 8.

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• Nov 13, 2018 - 11:54
Status needs info ⇒ active
Frequency ⇒ Once
Priority ⇒ P1 - High
Regression ⇒ No
Reproducibility ⇒ Randomly
Workaround ⇒ Yes

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• Jul 21, 2020 - 00:18

Bumping this. You have to wait for the soundfont to load, and notes to make sound, before loading new soundfonts from the score data. Very frustrating indeed when you might want to make a quick update to a score. Also, this is reproducible 100% of the time for someone with a slow hard drive such as I. It was made far more common after 3.0 probably due to the size of General Musescore.
Anyway, would be nice to have a fix. Worth noting is that loading soundfonts the standard way works perfectly fine (perhaps a bit slower).

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• Feb 3, 2021 - 07:04
Status fixed ⇒ active

Nope, nope, false alarm. It just happened again. It seems like it's simply harder to crash instead of crash-proof, so to speak (as before it would crash 100% of the time).

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